| Angels | |
| Author: | Denis Johnson |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Published: | 1983 |
| Publisher: | Knopf |
| Isbn: | 978-0060988821 |
Angels is a 1983 novel by American author Denis Johnson. It was Johnson's first novel; previously, he had published several books of poetry. Alice Hoffman, writing for the New York Times, referred to the novel as "a mixture of poetry and obscenity".[1] Angels follows two characters – Jamie, a young mother fleeing her abusive husband, and Bill Houston, a restless ex-convict – who encounter one another on an interstate bus trip. Bill Houston also appears in Johnson's novel Tree of Smoke, which won the National Book Award in 2007.[2] In 1999, David Foster Wallace included the novel on his list of overlooked American books published after 1960.[3]